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Jeremy Crampton on my ‘the political is always technical’ comment

Posted on December 19, 2013 by stuartelden

Jeremy Crampton has responded in a very interesting way to my comment that ‘the political is always technical’. I made that comment in my remarks to the ArcticNet conference last week – a summary and the audio recording are here. … Continue reading →

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Fifteen years ago today I submitted my PhD thesis

Posted on December 18, 2013 by stuartelden

My PhD thesis was entitled ‘Mapping the Present: Space and History in the work of Friedrich Nietzsche, Martin Heidegger and Michel Foucault’ and it was submitted in December 1998 (I’m pretty sure it was on the 18th). It was examined … Continue reading →

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Ben Anderson, Encountering Affect – out next year

Posted on December 18, 2013 by stuartelden

My ex-Durham colleague and friend Ben Anderson’s book Encountering Affect: Capacities, Apparatuses, Conditions is coming out next year. Since the mid-1990s, affect has become central to the social sciences and humanities. Debates abound over how to conceptualise affect, and how to … Continue reading →

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Books received – Foucault, Anderson, Sloterdijk, Geographica Helvetica

Posted on December 17, 2013 by stuartelden

The latest Foucault lecture course La société punitive; Sloterdijk’s Nietzsche Apostle; Perry Anderson’s Lineages of the Absolutist State (the only one of my ten books that stayed with me that I didn’t actually own); and the new issue of Geographica … Continue reading →

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Books received

Posted on December 14, 2013 by stuartelden

Luke Glanville’s Sovereignty and the Responsibility to Protect, Sue Middleton’s Henri Lefebvre and Education, the new issues of RIS and Transactions, and a manuscript to review.

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Where to start with reading Henri Lefebvre?

Posted on December 11, 2013 by stuartelden

[The most recent version of this guide can be found here.] This comes in response to a question to me on Twitter. Where should you start with Henri Lefebvre? I think many people, especially in Geography, go to The Production … Continue reading →

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The ten books that have stayed with me…

Posted on December 10, 2013 by stuartelden

This originated on Facebook, and I had it from Helga Tawil-Souri. Rules: In your status line, list 10 books that have stayed with you. Don’t take more than a few minutes; don’t think too hard. They don’t have to be … Continue reading →

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Justin E.H. Smith on his plans for the next ten years of research

Posted on December 8, 2013 by stuartelden

I’ve mentioned Justin E.H. Smith on this blog before, mainly in relation to his excellent book on Leibniz, Divine Machines. In this post he talks about his various future book projects, including several under contract, and some translations. Will be of interest … Continue reading →

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The Birth of Territory & Terror and Territory introductions available online

Posted on December 6, 2013 by stuartelden

You can read the introductions to my books The Birth of Territory and Terror and Territory online here. Previews of books by my colleagues in Politics & International Studies at Warwick can be found by going to research cluster pages and following the links … Continue reading →

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Critical.Theory.com’s 15 books to be excited about in 2014

Posted on December 4, 2013 by stuartelden

Critical.Theory.com’s 15 books to be excited about in 2014 – full list here. Some of these are new, some new translations, some new editions, but lots to get excited about – Derrida, Althusser, Jameson, Critchley, Laclau, Massumi & Manning etc.

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